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The Christian Index. BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO. The Christian Index. Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 8. Broad. St. The colored Baptist meeting-house at Cedartown was recently destroyed by fire. Dr. W. J. Mitchell has formally ac cepted the call to the Baptist church at Griffin. We are indebted to our excellent Representative in Congress, Hon. N. J. Hammond, for interesting public documents. Thanks. The pastor of the Baptist church at Franklin has recently held a series of the most interesting services at the church,and at the private residences in the village. Personal. —We had the pleasure of a call from brethren J. G. Ryals and R. B. Headden. We are always glad to meet these esteemed friends. We regret that Dr. Hornady has been quite indisposed for over a week. He is suffering from a severe cold. “I can but wish that every' Baptist family in the land would take and read The Christian Index, the most wel come visitor to my family. My father took it as long as he lived, and I look upon a bound volume of The Colum bian Star, as one of the most sacred relics left in his library. As old as it is, I look upon it as a compendium of valuable religious thought.”— Extract from a letter from Bro. W. B. Gilbert, Hom’s Cross Roads, Miller county, Ga. Charles Simon & Sons. —This old and reliable Baltimore house again sol icits the patronage of our readers through our advertising columns. For many years this popular house has commanded the esteem and patronage of our people, and these they maintain by integrity in all their business rela tions, the excellence of their goods, their great and varied stock, and their very reasonable prices. We commend this house cordially to our people. Through the courtesy of Mr. Horace Bradley, the well-known and talented young Atlanta sketch artist, we are enabled to present our readers with a very fine picture of Col. J. H. Estill, of the Savannah Morning News. As that paper has a large circulation in South Georgia and Florida, we feel sure our readers will be glad to look upon the manly face of its enterprising proprie tor, and also read the excellent sketch of his useful life which accompanies the picture. The last issue of the “Morning News Library,” which is number five of the series, contains an interesting novel by a gifted Atlanta writer, Miss Mat Crim, also known in the literary world as "Stephen Brent.” The story is enti tled “The Heathercotes,” and can be found at the bookstores and news stands of this city, where it is sold for the small sum of twenty cents. Col. Estill has done well in getting out the M Morning News Library,” and it should have a iarge sale in Georgia. Death of an Estimable Lady.—On Sunday night, February 27th, at seven o’clock, Mrs. Mary Dunne, wife of Cap tain Hugh Dunne, died at her resi dence in this city, and was buried from the Catholic church of Peter and Paul yesterday evening. She died in the full triumph of Christian hope, and the scene at her bedside was most touch ing. Mrs. Dunne was a woman of many excellencies of character, a true wife, a Christian mother, a devoted friend. To the bereaved husband and her six orphaned children we extend sin cere condolence. — Atlanta Constitution, March Ist Capt. Dunne is the worthy superin tendent of the Bindery department of the Franklin Printing House. We ex tend to the sorely bereaved husbandand father our heartfelt sympathy in his irreparable loss, and commend him and his motherless children to the care of Him who can alone give consolation and strength in this time of affliction. A Valuable Work. —The “Essays in Theology and Philosophy,” by Dr. W. B. Carson, are now passing throngh the press of Jas. P. Harrison & Co. I have had opportunity and occasion to read several of them. They have im pressed me as characterized in no small degree by clearness of thought, force of reasoning and precision of style. The author grapples—by way, not of dissertation merely, but of discussion, —with lofty and difficult themes; such as “certainty and contingency,” “prov idence,” “prayer,” “human liberty and efficient Divine government,” etc. And without committing myself to all his positions and processes, I feel free to express the hope that many readers of the Index will do these high subjects the justice of acquainting themselves with this able attempt to solve the perplexities with which hasty and par tial thinking often darkens the truth. D. Shaver. Atlanta, Ga., Feb 22,1881 “THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL" —Dr. Gwin, the beloved pastor of the First Baptist church, of Atlanta, preached a deeply interesting sermon Sunday before last, on the subject of “The Handwriting on the Wall.” The following is a brief synopsis of it. The sermon was appropriately closed by a recitation of the beautiful and well known poem, “What I Live For,” to be found on our sixth page. Dr. Gwin stated that his theme is to be found in Daniel v. 22-31. Belshazzar gave a feast to a thous- 1 and lords. He was a man selfish, self willed, sensual, who abandoned him self to the grossest pleasures, who ex hibited the haughtiest arrogance, who allied himself with the most debasing perscns and things. Although he knew the history of his grandfather, Nebuchadnezzar, he learned no lesson of humility or holiness from it, but be came more defiant as his disgrace deep ened, more daring as his contempt in tensified. He was ravenous of rebel lion against God. Drunk with wine, he called for the golden vessels which had been taken from the Jewish tem ple, and from them “toasted” the gods of the heathens. But lo I in the midst of his revelry, there “came forth the fingers of a man’s hand and wrote over against the can dlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.” This startles him and his friends. All is stillness. Alarm perches Its terrific form on every cheek. He sends for the astrologers—for the scientists—to read the writing, but they could not. At the queen’s suggestion, he calls for Daniel, who had given counsel and hope to Nebuchadnezzar in his extrem ity. Daniel has neither of these for Belshazzar. Now he is a prophet of doom—now he simply utters the final issue—now he simply condemns the helpless king to unutterable woe. That night, by masterly strategy in turning the waters of the Euphrates into a suburban lake, Cyrus enters the city through its shallowed bed, and Belshazzar was slain. This event, the fulfillment of a prophecy by Jeremiah has been confirmed by Herodotus and Xenophon, and the harmony between sacred and profane history has been established by the recent discoveries of Sir Henry Rawlinson. This record has lessons for us. It is not a mere drama—a picture of far-off experien ces, monumental and representative. Let us gather several. 1. Sin is always hateful to God, no matter where or by whom it is commit ted, it is sealed with the brand of his abhorrence. The rank of the sinner does not gild his sin. There is no re spect of person with God, whether he be Abraham or Ananias, Boaz or Bar nabas, Cain or Cephas, David or Dio trephes, Eli Elymas, Felix or Festus, Gehazi or Gamaliel, Haman or Herod, Jonah or Judas, and so on through the alphabet. Angels sinning perish un der his frown. 2. Though God delay long he sure ly comes in punishment. The heart hardened under reproof shall be sud denly destroyed without remedy. Bel shazzar was suddenly cut off, so with Pharoah, and Haman, and Judas. Men often evade punishment from human judiciaries and grow to fancy an escape from God’s justice, but God means what he says. The earth shall perish rather than His word fail. 3. We shall be weighed in the same balances by which this king was test ed 4. Each man has a kingdom of his own which he forfeits forever if he is found wanting. Let me read to you the parables of the talents and pounds recorded in Matthew 25 and Luke 19. This king exhibited in his character two evils which mark also our times: 1. Intemperance. 2. Irreverence— the one is an insult to reason, the oth er an insult to God. 5. It is too late to seek preparation for a crisis when the crisis is upon us. Daniel offers no help. He only de clares the issue. No use now to prom ise hope, no use now to plead for relief, no use now to go for oil. The lamp is out, the hour has come, the door is shut, death shadows the wine, the wick edness, the revelry of that scene, the avenger enters, Belshazzar is dead. 6. God’s judgment. This is certain. No more surely does night follow day. It is quick and sudden. The Son of Man comes like a thief in the night. It is irretrievable. "In the place where the tree falleth there it shall be.” It is terrible. “Good were it for that man had he never been born.” 7. Contrast Belshazzar and Daniel— the king and the captive. Who is the true hero and conqueror? Which teaches us how to live? Let us live the life if we would die the death of the righteous. Better to have the body than the soul in chains. Trust in God, and do good. Look to Jesus Christ, and live. The Ladies of Sandersville have a weekly prayer, meeting on Tuesday afternoons at the Baptist church. General Literature—Domestic and Foreign Intelligence—Secular Editorials. ATLANTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1881. The Constitution publishes the recent decision of the Supreme Court in the case of ex-State Treasurer Renfroe and sureties, vs. Mayo Sheriff, Wash ington county. The Court declares the legislation of the General Assembly against Mr. Renfroe and his sureties unconstitutional,and upholds the action of the chancellor in granting the or der restraining the sheriff from enforc ing the executions against the lands of Mr. Renfroe and of his sureties, on both of his official bonds. The judgment concludes as follows: “We cannot see that the chancellor er red in granting that restraining order. It maybe that the treasurer and sureties are liable to respond to the State for the money made by the use of public funds. It may be that on proper plead ings, by answer, or answer in the na ture of cross-bills to these bills of com plainants, recovery may be had by the State for such sums as may have been received by the treasurer and his sure ties on account of interest which he made by the use of public money. On these questions we decide nothing. All that we do decide is that on neither of these bodds can these executions sum marily make the money which is there in specified, and that until the whole case can be be fully and fairly heard in open court, the chancellor was right to grant the ad interim injunction.” The Constitution, editorially,comments as follows: “We publish in full the decision of the Supreme Court in the Renfroe case. It will be found of interest to all who have kept up with this cel ebrated case. This decision settles the fact that the resolution passed by the Legislature was void, and that it was class legislation of the poorest sort. The truth is, the resolution was the result of passion on the part of members of the Legislature, and ought not to have been past at all. Captain Harry Jack son, who was Mr. Renfroe’s attorney, and who has had almost the entire management of the case, has displayed great ability, as well as zeal, in the in terest of his client. His triumph in this case shows that he is entitled to a high place among the lawyers of the State.” The Piedmont Aik-Line Headlight, for February, is as interesting as ever. It is one of the best journals of its kind in the United States, and well repres ents the enterprise and growing pros perity of the important railway of which it is the organ. In addition to well selected miscel laneous reading matter, its columns are devoted to the illustration and de scription of the country through which the road passes, and for the develop ment of which the management of the Air-Line is constantly and most suc cessfully exerting itself. For these ef forts to secure the material prosperity of the grand tenitory tributary to the road,the managers deserve the gratitude and esteem of every citizen. A growing tide of immigration is pouring into the "Piedmont Belt.” This number of The Headlight contains an approximate re port of the immigrants, by name, who have settled along the line during the past twelve months, and which, though necessarily imperfect, runs the number of incomers into the thousands. Here after monthly bulletins of immigrants arriving at each station, will be pub lished. No road in the South is laboring as zealously and as effectively for the pro motion of immigration than the Air- Line, and the result is evident. The road is highly prosperous, is doing an immense business, and is one of the ' most popular passenger routes in the country. Its officers are capable and circumspect men, and the policy of the managers is based upon patriotic wisdom, and on long approved business principles. Help Wanted.—The Cane Creek Academy, at Cog Hill, McMinn coun ty, Tennessee, with furniture, library, etc., was totally destroyed by fire Jan uary 24th. No insurance. A Baptist congregation, Elder Denton, pastor, worshipped in the Academy building, and are, consequently, without a house. The Trustees of the Academy have re solved to rebuild. It is to be a brick edifice, and to be situated on a fine lot. We have received a circular from the President of the college, J. H. Bruner, requesting us to call attention to this fact, and to appeal to a generous pub lic for aid. The community is composed mainly of small farmers and mechanics—a people poorly able to sustain their la mentable loss, but resolute in trying to educate their children. They deserve the sympathy and assistance of a gen erous public the friends of education everywhere. Contributions of materials, cash, and books, may be sent through .Capt. John A. Turley, Pres. Board of Trus tees, Dr. A. Slack, Sec., or W. A. Patty, chairman of the building committee — all at Cog Hill post office, Tenn. Their express office is Athens. Rev. J. J. Brantly, D.D., has been secured as pastor by Bethlehem church at Warthen. CITY VERSUS COUNTRY. The New York Sun comments upon a feature developed by the census of 1880, which is worthy of grave reflec tion. The political economist, and the moralist, will find food for reflection in the suggestive figures given. There are 245 cities in the United States which contain ten thousand inhabitants and over, and there population in 1880 was 11,100,201. In 1870 we had 184 cities' with a population of ten thousand and over, and their aggregate population was 7,672,233. These cities have therefore increased in number 61 within ten years, and they contain 3,427,968 more inhabitants. Our total gain in population since 1870 has been 11,594,188, and nearly a third of this increase has been in the cities. If we included all the municip alities, those of between eight and ten thousand inhabitants as well as those of greater size, we should probably find that our total urban population in 1880 was over eleven and a half millions, and toward three and three quarter millions more than in 1870. This would make the increase in the cities fully one-third of the whole increase of pop ulation in the Union. The cities contained about 8,000,000 inhabitants in 1870, to 11,500,000 in 1880. They therefore have been in creasing in inhabitants far more rapid ly than the rest of the country. While the general gain has been only about twenty-five per cent, that in the cities has been about forty-five per cent. And this growth of the cities at the expense of the country generally has been becoming more marked during the whole of the last fifty years. In 1830 our total urban population was only about one-sixteenth of the whole. In 1850 it had grown to one-eighth. In 1870 it was one-fifth ; and in 1880 out of about forty-five millions of inhab itants more than elevenand a half mil ions lived in the cities. If the cities go on increasing during the next ten years in the same ratio which the last ten years have shown, and the country, as a whole, advances in population at the same rate, we shall have more than sixteen millions in the cities, to about forty-eight or forty-nine millions in the rest of the country. A like tendency to build up the towns at the expense of the country appears in the figures we are obtaining of the German census taken last year. It is a modern tendency, and shall we not call it a modern evil, likely to have calamitous consequences? New York seems determined that Cincinnati shall not have all the glory attaching to musical festivals on a mammoth scale, and hence great at tention is to be bestowed on the musi cal festival which is to be given during the first week in May next, in the new armory of the New York Seventh Regi ment. The festival will comprise four evening and three day performances, and provision will be made for ten thousand seats, including 150 private boxes seating four and five persons each. The festival is to be under the leadership of Dr. Leopold Damrosch, and the will consist of 1,200 select voices, including the cho rus of the Oratorio Society, is now hold ing two rehearsals each week in sec tions. Among the choral works selec ted are the Dettingen “Te Deum,” by Handel, Rubinstein’s “Tower of Babel,” and Berlioz’s “Grand Requiem.” The orchestra will share very largely in the work to be done, and will comprise over two hundred and fifty instru ments. Besides the grand festival chorus of 1,200 singers, arrangements have just now been completed for an additional interesting feature of the festival in the formation of another choral force, to consist of 1,000 young ladies and 700 boys, (the latter recruit ed from church choirs), who will sing several shorter but interesting choral compositions at some of the afternoon concerts. At the invitation of Friendship church, Campbell county, brethren J. H. Hall, P. N. Rhodes, and G. W. Col quitt met with their pastor, W. A. Lane on Saturday, Feb. 19th, to examine brother R. C. Rhodes with reference to his qualifications for the ministry. Brother Hall preached the sermon from I. Tim. 6 : 12 : “Lay hold on eter nal life.” Upon examination brother Rhodes gave satisfactory evidence of his call to the ministry and soundness in the faith, and after prayer by brother T. N. Rhodes, the charge was delivered by the pastor, and the hand of fellowship was extended by the church and pres bytery, in recognition of the gift of the candidate, and as an expression of their love and confidence. Brother Rhodes is a son of Rev. T. N. Rhodes, who is well and favorably kmown as a minister and educator. He has accepted a call to Sardis church, in Coweta county, and many anxious hearts are hoping and praying for his success in this important work. A writer in Scribner’s Monthly uses the following strong language, which will be sincerely indorsed by the wo men who have suffered all over the land: “Os the worst foes that women have ever had to encounter liquor stands at the head. The appetite for strong drink in men has spoiled the lives of more women—ruined more hopes for them, scattered more fortunes for them, brought to them more shame, sorrow and hardship—than any other evil that lives. The country numbers tens of thousands —nay, hundreds of thousands of women who are widows to-day, and sit in hopeless weeds be cause their husbands have been slain by strong drink.” “Yes,” says the Agricultural World, “there are hundreds of thousands of homes scattered all over the land, in which women lead lives of torture, going through all the agonies of suffer ing that lie between the extremes of fear and despair, because those whom they love, love liquor better than they do the women they have sworn to love. There are women by the thousands who dread to hear at the door the step that once filled them with pleasure; that step has learned to reel under the influence of the seductive poison. There are women groaning with pain, while we write these words, from bruises and brutalities inflicted by husbands made mad by drink. There can be no exaggeration in any statement made in regard to this matter, because no hu man imagination can create anything worse than truth, and no pen is capa ble of portraying the truth. The sor row of a wife with a drunken husband or a mother with a drunken son, are as near the realization of hell as can be reached, in this world at least. The shame, the indignation, the sorrow, the sense of disgrace for herself and child ren, the poverty —and not unfrequent ly the beggary—the fear and the fact of violence, the lingering life-long strug gle and despair of countless women with drunken husbands, are enough to make all the women curse liquor, and engage unitedly to expose it every where as the worst enemy of the sex. Organization of Bio Church.— According to previous appointment, a meeting was held on the 29 th of Jan uary, 1881, at the above place for the purpose of organizing a church. After divine services conducted by Rev. I. H. Goss, Rev. L. W. Stephens was called to the chair and Wm. M. Clark reques ted to act as Secretary. The presbytery then proceded to call the roll of the brethren and sisters present. After ex amining their covenant and articles of faith and finding them correct, pro ceeded to organize them into a Baptist church, by the brethren composing the presbytery extending to them the right hand of fellowship. Brother J. H. Me Mullan offered prayer for the newly constituted church. After the organi zation, a prayer meeting was appointed for the next morning at 10 o’clock. At 11 o’clock, after singing appropriate hymns, dedication prayer was offered by Rev. L. W. Stephens, and sermon preached by Rev. J. H. McMullan, fol lowed in appropriate remarks by Rev. I. H. Goss. The first service after the dedication was a collection for missions, which resulted in a collection of $6.60. Rev. L. W. Stephens is pastor of this new church. Its post-office is Bio. Time of meeting, 3rd Sabbath and Sat urday before. The Sunday School Convention of the Stone Mountain Baptist Associa tion will meet in the Central Baptist church, corner Fair and West Peters streets, in this city, April Ist, 2nd, and 3rd. The General Theme is :“Our Needs, and How to Supply Them.” A number of distinguished ministers and promin ent Sunday-school workers will address the body, and many subjects of great interest will be discussed. The prog ramme is a very interesting one, and large congregations will be present during the session. Speeches in the Convention limited to twenty minutes. Each church and school in the bounds of the Association is entitled to two messengers, and one for each ad ditional twenty-five members after the first twenty-five. It is earnestly hoped that churches and schools will send up full delegations to this Convention. Each school is requested to send up full reports by March 25th to the Sec retary—of the condition of the school; number of officers, teachers and pu pils (separating the items); average at tendance ; contributions; conversions; number of church-members engaged in the Sunday-school; distance and direction of church from county site. Daniel F. Beatty, the celebrated or gan builder, owing to large increase of business, is about to add extensive improvements to his foundry at Wash ington, New Jersey. The sales of the Beatty organ increase every month, and with these additional improvments he will be able to furnish his custom ers at short notice. Last month 518 organs were shipped from the Beatty factory, and at the present time sever- I al hundred orders are booked ahead. ESTABLISHED lßil. GEORGIA NEWS. —Columbus will soon have water-works. —Atlanta has been made a port of entry at last. —Quite a number of bridges on Yellow river have recently Been washed away. —A little child in Coflee county recently died of hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a cat. —The colored military battalion at Savan nah, seven companies strong, celebrated Lincoln's birthday on the 14th. —There are indications of a revival of fruit raising in Hancock. This business has come into decided prominence in some sec tions of the State. It is largelv remunera tive. —Clark’s factory, in DeKalb county, was washed away recently. Cotton, cloth and spools of thread were’ picked up for miles down the river. The loss is reported to be over $75,000. —Mr. B. F. Williams, of Auraria, Lump kin county, is making arrangements for a telephone line forty miles long, which shall surround the gold region of North Georgia, and will connect Gainesville, Auraria, Dah lonega and Dawsonville in one continuous circuit. —The Douglasville Star says : “The Chat tahoochee has been so high that it has been impossible to cross it at any of the ferries except in abatteau. Some of our farmers, who went to market before the rain, remain ed on the other side of the river ten days be fore they were able to recross it.” —The Governor of North Carolina, and the Governor of South Carolina, and the Governor of Georgia, Maryland, Virginia and Tennessee, have selected Senator Wade Hampton to speak for the Southern portion of the “Old Thirteen” at the Cowpens Cen tennial. Governor Hampton has accepted the appointment. —Some one has been examining the law with reference to the duties of the Justices of the Peace, and the following is the result of his investigation, which we give for the benefit of all concerned: “The laws of Georgia provide that Justices of the Peace shall issue warrants for the arrest of all vio lations of criminal laws, not merely when somebody applies for a warrant, but when ever they, the Justices, receive information that the offences have been committed. It is, therefore, the plain duty of a Justice of the Peace to issue warrants for the arrest of violators of the law whenever sufficient evi dence of the violation is at hand.” —Says the Atlanta Constitution: “The policy of the Air-Line railroad in building up and improving the section through which it runs—a policy, by the way, that will fin ally commend itself to all railroad managers —is already making itself felt. The Air line has recently received reports from its station agents embodying a census of those who have emigrated to the Piedmont region during the past twelve months. The Head light, published under the auspices of the road, says that these reports are necessarily incomplete, covering not more than one-half coming in. It is estimated that duriug the year 2 561 settlers have been added to the population of the towns on the Air-Line— -1,019 in Georgia; 1.017 in South Carolina, and 525 in North Carolina. These settlers have come from Switzerland, and new arri vals of Swiss and Armenian immigrants are expected in a few weeks. If the liberal poli cy of the Air-Line—a policy that will add thousands of dollars to the value of the road in a few years—was imitated by other Geor gia roads, the problem of immigration would be solved without legislative intervention." —The following is a list of the new post office routes recently established in Georgia: From Morgan to Ward Station, Southwest ern Railroad; from Spring Place, via. Ramy’s Store and Carter’s, to Talking Rock ; from Hammond’s Mills, via. Ursnan s to Fouche’s Mills; from Lamar to Sumterville; from Ringgold to Crawfish Spring ; from Harlem to Appling Court House; from Warsaw, via. Mazeppa, to Alpharetta; irom Jonesboro to Miller's Store; from Doraville to Oak Grove; from Barnesville to Person’s Store; from Auraria io Juno; from Tiften, via. John Fletcher's. Sr., and A. E. Clements', to Wolf Creek; from Lumber City, via. Sylvan Home, to Clarke’s Bluff; from Dallas, via. Embryville, to Draketown ; from Tugalo to Big Smith’s; from Baxley's via. G. J. Hol ton’s, to Daniel Lott’s Store; from Baxley to Nicholl's; from Beding to Wrightsville; from House Creek, via. Williams’ Mills, to Wolf Creek ; from Greenesboro, via. Liberty, Sunset View and Neary’s, to Sparta; from Wrightsville, via. Snell’s Bridge over the Ohoopee river, to Fortune; from Hawkins ville to R- A. Bidgood’s; from Mount Ver non to Gieger's Mills. —Dr. Cary, Fish Commissioner of Georgia, writes an interesting letter about the carp fisheries in the State. One year ago last fall he distributed seven hnndred carp through Georgia, stocking about thirty ponds. Last fall he stocked three hundred ponds in Geor gia, scattered from Dahlonega to Savannah. The interest in carp has increased enormous ly just now. Every mail brings application for fish, and Dr. Cary is satisfied that five hundred ponds are being prepared, and will be ready for carp next fall. If these can be stocked there will be about one thousand ponds in the State properly stocked with carp, four hundred of which will be old ponds. Dr. Cary will find 1,000 new ponds ready for fish in the coming fall. To meet this demand is important. The government ponds at Washington were swept away in the freshet of last week, and the carp scatter ed, but the Baltimore government ponds have a large supply. Dr. Cary thinks that the carp put in Georgia ponds in 1879 will spawn this spring, without doubt. If so, he will be able to supply all Georgia demands. He is going to establish State hatching ponds during the present year, from which he will get all the fish that can be needed. —The Atlanta Post-Appeal pertinently says: “The evils attending idleness, vaga bondage and pauperism are of the most alarming character. This is a matter that has not received sufficient attention in Geor gia. Our penal system and pauper system are not calculated to utilize the convicts and paupers to the best advantage. And there is another class de erving the strict surveil lance of the law. The State is overrun with vagrants; our cities and towns are full of them. They tramp all over the country neighborhoods; they get their living by begging, swindling, stealing, and occasional ly commit blacker crimes. The devil finds work for these idle hands, but it is not the kind of work that will benefit the State. “The labor of our vagrants and paupers properly directed, would be worth a great deal, and the employment of these classes would keep them out of mischief. If they are not willing to work for a living, the law should compel them to work. The world does not owe them a living, and they have no right to it unless they give something in return for it. The best thing that could be done at present for all classes would be to stringently enforce the statute against va grancy, and make a clean sweep of tramps and beggars. There is policy, philosophy and mercy in such a course."
